Turning One Cheek Won't End Evil

September 29, 2001

I have watched in disbelief those vocal few who object to America's striking back at bin Laden and his fellow red ants. There will always be those fringe people who sympathize with the enemy as they grind their own petty personal axes, but the saddest thing is the people who are afraid to stand up for themselves. They think that if they can just do the right thing, say the right thing, apologize in the right way, turn the other cheek, love their neighbor enough, terrorism will stop and this evil will disappear.

Well, it won't go away. It did not after bombing an American bar in Germany, after bombing the U.S. Marine barracks, after bombing our embassy in Africa, after the first bombing of the World Trade Center, nor after bombing the Cole. And if we do not put a stop to it now, thoroughly, harshly, finally, what we have seen is just a beginning. They will not hesitate to use nuclear and biological weapons on us when they can deliver them.

We are hated because we are Jews, we are hated because we are Christians, we are hated because we are atheists. We are all infidels standing in the way of a new world order. I was in a war and do not enter into this lightly, but with regret -- and resolve. For the sake of my children and my children's children, I would willingly give my life to help end this evil. This because we have no choice. I will not be taken quietly.